Chapter XIV: Act II: SCENE I. Rochester. An inn yard

_Enter a_ Carrier _with a lantern in his hand_.[2227]

_First Car._ Heigh-ho! an it be not four by the day,[2228]
I'll be hanged: Charles' wain is over the new chimney, and
yet our horse not packed. What, ostler!

_Ost._ [_Within_] Anon, anon.[2229]

_First Car._ I prithee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a 5
few flocks in the point; poor jade, is wrung in the withers[2230]
out of all cess.

_Enter another_ Carrier.[2231]

_Sec. Car._ Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog,[2232]
and that is the next way to give poor jades the bots: this[2233]
house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died.[2234] 10

_First Car._ Poor fellow, never joyed since the price of[2235]
oats rose; it was the death of him.

_Sec. Car._ I think this be the most villanous house in[2236]
all London road for fleas: I am stung like a tench.[2237]

_First Car._ Like a tench! by the mass, there is ne'er a[2237][2238] 15
king christen could be better bit than I have been since[2239]
the first cock.

_Sec. Car._ Why, they will allow us ne'er a jordan, and[2240]
then we leak in your chimney; and your chamber-lie breeds[2241]
fleas like a loach. 20

_First Car._ What, ostler! come away and be hanged!
come away.

_Sec. Car._ I have a gammon of bacon and two razes of[2242]
ginger, to be delivered as far as Charing-cross.

_First Car._ God's body! the turkeys in my pannier are[2243] 25
quite starved. What, ostler! A plague on thee! hast thou
never an eye in thy head? canst not hear? An 'twere not[2244]
as good deed as drink, to break the pate on thee, I am a[2245]
very villain. Come, and be hanged! hast no faith in thee?

_Enter_ GADSHILL.[2246]

_Gads._ Good morrow, carriers. What's o'clock? 30

_First Car._ I think it be two o'clock.

_Gads._ I prithee, lend me thy lantern, to see my gelding
in the stable.

_First Car._ Nay, by God, soft; I know a trick worth[2247]
two of that, i' faith.[2248] 35

_Gads._ I pray thee, lend me thine.[2249]

_Sec. Car._ Ay, when? canst tell? Lend me thy lantern,
quoth he? marry, I'll see thee hanged first.[2250]

_Gads._ Sirrah carrier, what time do you mean to come
to London? 40

_Sec. Car._ Time enough to go to bed with a candle, I
warrant thee. Come, neighbour Mugs, we'll call up the
gentlemen: they will along with company, for they have
great charge. [_Exeunt Carriers._[2251]

_Gads._ What, ho! chamberlain![2252] 45

_Cham._ [_Within_] At hand, quoth pick-purse.[2253]

_Gads._ That's even as fair as--at hand, quoth the[2254]
chamberlain; for thou variest no more from picking of
purses than giving direction doth from labouring; thou
layest the plot how.[2255] 50

_Enter_ Chamberlain.

_Cham._ Good morrow, Master Gadshill. It holds current
that I told you yesternight: there's a franklin in the
wild of Kent hath brought three hundred marks with him
in gold: I heard him tell it to one of his company last
night at supper; a kind of auditor; one that hath abundance 55
of charge too, God knows what. They are up already, and
call for eggs and butter: they will away presently.

_Gads._ Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas'
clerks, I'll give thee this neck.

_Cham._ No, I'll none of it: I pray thee, keep that for[2256] 60
the hangman; for I know thou worshippest Saint Nicholas
as truly as a man of falsehood may.

_Gads._ What talkest thou to me of the hangman? if I
hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows; for if I hang, old Sir
John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling[2257] 65
Tut! there are other Trojans that thou dreamest
not of, the which for sport sake are content to do the profession
some grace; that would, if matters should be looked
into, for their own credit sake, make all whole. I am joined[2258]
with no foot-land rakers, no long-staff sixpenny strikers,[2259] 70
none of these mad mustachio purple-hued malt-worms; but[2260]
with nobility and tranquillity, burgomasters and great
oneyers,[2261][2262]
such as can hold in, such as will strike sooner than[2262][2263]
speak, and speak sooner than drink, and drink sooner than[2263][2264]
pray: and yet, 'zounds, I lie; for they pray continually to[2265] 75
their saint, the commonwealth; or rather, not pray to her,[2266][2267]
but prey on her, for they ride up and down on her and[2267][2268]
make her their boots.[2268]

_Cham._ What, the commonwealth their boots? will she
hold out water in foul way? 80

_Gads._ She will, she will; justice hath liquored her.
We steal as in a castle, cock-sure; we have the receipt of
fern-seed, we walk invisible.

_Cham._ Nay, by my faith, I think you are more beholding[2269]
to the night than to fern-seed for your walking invisible.[2270] 85

_Gads._ Give me thy hand: thou shalt have a share in
our purchase, as I am a true man.[2271]

_Cham._ Nay, rather let me have it, as you are a false
thief.

_Gads._ Go to; 'homo' is a common name to all men. 90
Bid the ostler bring my gelding out of the stable. Farewell,[2272]
you muddy knave. [_Exeunt._[2273]

SCENE II. _The highway, near Gadshill._

_Enter_ PRINCE HENRY _and_ POINS.[2274]

_Poins._ Come, shelter, shelter: I have removed Falstaff's
horse, and he frets like a gummed velvet.

_Prince._ Stand close.

_Enter_ FALSTAFF.[2275]

_Fal._ Poins! Poins, and be hanged! Poins!

_Prince._ Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal! what a brawling[2276] 5
dost thou keep!

_Fal._ Where's Poins, Hal?[2277]

_Prince._ He is walked up to the top of the hill: I'll go
seek him.[2278]

_Fal._ I am accursed to rob in that thief's company: the[2279] 10
rascal hath removed my horse, and tied him I know not[2280]
where. If I travel but four foot by the squier further afoot,[2281]
I shall break my wind. Well, I doubt not but to die a fair
death for all this, if I 'scape hanging for killing that rogue.
I have forsworn his company hourly any time this two and[2282] 15
twenty years, and yet I am bewitched with the rogue's[2282][2283]
company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to
make me love him, I'll be hanged; it could not be else; I
have drunk medicines. Poins! Hal! a plague upon you[2284]
both! Bardolph! Peto! I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further.[2285] 20
An 'twere not as good a deed as drink, to turn true[2286]
man and to leave these rogues, I am the veriest varlet that[2287]
ever chewed with a tooth. Eight yards of uneven ground
is threescore and ten miles afoot with me; and the stony-hearted
villains know it well enough: a plague upon it[2288] 25
when thieves cannot be true one to another! [_They whistle._][2289]
Whew! A plague upon you all! Give me my horse, you[2290]
rogues; give me my horse, and be hanged!

_Prince._ Peace, ye fat-guts! lie down; lay thine ear
close to the ground and list if thou canst hear the tread of[2291] 30
travellers.

_Fal._ Have you any levers to lift me up again, being
down? 'Sblood, I'll not bear mine own flesh so far afoot[2292]
again for all the coin in thy father's exchequer. What a
plague mean ye to colt me thus? 35

_Prince._ Thou liest; thou art not colted, thou art uncolted.

_Fal._ I prithee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horse,
good king's son.

_Prince._ Out, ye rogue! shall I be your ostler?[2293] 40

_Fal._ Go, hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent garters![2294]
If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. An I have not ballads made[2295]
on you all and sung to filthy tunes, let a cup of sack be my[2296]
poison: when a jest is so forward, and afoot too! I hate it.[2297]

_Enter_ GADSHILL, BARDOLPH _and_ PETO _with him_.[2298]

_Gads._ Stand. 45

_Fal._ So I do, against my will.

_Poins._ O, 'tis our setter: I know his voice. Bardolph,[2299]
what news?[2299]

_Bard._ Case ye, case ye; on with your vizards: there's[2300]
money of the king's coming down the hill; 'tis going to the 50
king's exchequer.

_Fal._ You lie, ye rogue; 'tis going to the king's tavern.[2301]

_Gads._ There's enough to make us all.[2302]

_Fal._ To be hanged.

_Prince._ Sirs, you four shall front them in the narrow[2303] 55
lane; Ned Poins and I will walk lower: if they 'scape from[2304]
your encounter, then they light on us.

_Peto._ How many be there of them?[2305]

_Gads._ Some eight or ten.

_Fal._'Zounds, will they not rob us?[2306] 60

_Prince._ What, a coward, Sir John Paunch?

_Fal._ Indeed, I am not John of Gaunt, your grandfather;[2307]
but yet no coward, Hal.

_Prince._ Well, we leave that to the proof.[2308]

_Poins._ Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind the hedge: 65
when thou needest him, there thou shalt find him. Farewell,[2309]
and stand fast.

_Fal._ Now cannot I strike him, if I should be hanged.

_Prince._ Ned, where are our disguises?

_Poins._ Here, hard by: stand close. 70

[_Exeunt Prince and Poins._[2310]

_Fal._ Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I:[2311]
every man to his business.

_Enter the_ Travellers.[73]

_First Trav._ Come, neighbour: the boy shall lead our[2312][2313][2314]
horses down the hill; we'll walk afoot awhile, and ease[2314]
our legs.[2314] 75

_Thieves._ Stand![2314][2315]

_Travellers._ Jesus bless us![2314][2316]

_Fal._ Strike; down with them; cut the villains' throats:[2314]
ah! whoreson caterpillars! bacon-fed knaves! they hate us[2314][2317]
youth: down with them; fleece them.[2314] 80

_Travellers._ O, we are undone, both we and ours for ever![2314]

_Fal._ Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? No,[2314][2318]
ye fat chuffs; I would your store were here! On, bacons,[2314]
on! What, ye knaves! young men must live. You are[2314][2319]
grandjurors, are ye? we'll jure ye, 'faith.[2314] 85

[_Here they rob them and bind them. Exeunt._

_Re-enter_ PRINCE HENRY _and_ POINS.[2320]

_Prince._ The thieves have bound the true men. Now[2321]
could thou and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London,
it would be argument for a week, laughter for a
month and a good jest for ever.

_Poins._ Stand close; I hear them coming.[2322] 90

_Enter the Thieves again._[2323]

_Fal._ Come, my masters, let us share, and then to
horse before day. An the Prince and Poins be not two[2295]
arrant cowards, there's no equity stirring: there's no more[2324]
valour in that Poins than in a wild-duck.

_Prince._ Your money! 95

_Poins._ Villains!

[36.34] [_As they are sharing, the Prince and Poins set upon
them; they all run away; and Falstaff, after a blow or two, runs
away too, leaving the booty behind them._[2325]

_Prince._ Got with much ease. Now merrily to horse:
The thieves are all scatter'd and possess'd with fear[2326][2327]
So strongly that they dare not meet each other;[2326]
Each takes his fellow for an officer.[2326][2328] 100
Away, good Ned. Falstaff sweats to death,[2326][2329]
And lards the lean earth as he walks along:[2326]
Were 't not for laughing, I should pity him.[2326]

_Poins._ How the rogue roar'd! [_Exeunt._

SCENE III. _Warkworth Castle._[2330]

_Enter_ HOTSPUR _solus, reading a letter_.

_Hot._ +'But, for mine own part, my lord, I could be well contented+
+to be there, in respect of the love I bear your house.'+ He[2331]
could be contented: why is he not, then? In respect of[2332]
the love he bears our house: he shows in this, he loves
his own barn better than he loves our house. Let me 5
see some more. +'The purpose you undertake is dangerous;'+--why,
that's certain: 'tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to
drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle,
danger, we pluck this flower, safety. +'The purpose you
undertake[2333]+
+is dangerous; the friends you have named uncertain; the time[2334]+ 10
+itself unsorted; and your whole plot too light for the counterpoise+
+of so great an opposition.'+ Say you so, say you so? I say
unto you again, you are a shallow cowardly hind, and you
lie. What a lack-brain is this! By the Lord, our plot is[2335]
a good plot as ever was laid; our friends true and constant:[2336] 15
a good plot, good friends, and full of expectation;
an excellent plot, very good friends. What a frosty-spirited
rogue is this! Why, my lord of York commends the plot
and the general course of the action. 'Zounds, an I were[2337]
now by this rascal, I could brain him with his lady's fan. 20
Is there not my father, my uncle, and myself? lord
Edmund Mortimer, my lord of York, and Owen Glendower?
is there not besides the Douglas? have I not all
their letters to meet me in arms by the ninth of the next
month? and are they not some of them set forward already?[2338] 25
What a pagan rascal is this! an infidel! Ha! you shall[2339]
see now in very sincerity of fear and cold heart, will he to
the king, and lay open all our proceedings. O, I could
divide myself, and go to buffets, for moving such a dish of
skim milk with so honourable an action! Hang him! let[2340] 30
him tell the king: we are prepared. I will set forward[2341]
to-night.

_Enter_ LADY PERCY.[2342]

How now, Kate! I must leave you within these two hours.[2343]

_Lady._ O, my good Lord, why are you thus alone?
For what offence have I this fortnight been 35
A banish'd woman from my Harry's bed?
Tell me, sweet lord, what is 't that takes from thee
Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden sleep?
Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth,[2344]
And start so often when thou sit'st alone? 40
Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks;
And given my treasures and my rights of thee
To thick-eyed musing and cursed melancholy?
In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch'd,[2345]
And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars;[2346] 45
Speak terms of manage to thy bounding steed;
Cry 'Courage! to the field!' And thou hast talk'd
Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,[2347]
Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets,[2348]
Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin, 50
Of prisoners' ransom, and of soldiers slain,[2349]
And all the currents of a heady fight.[2350]
Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war[2351]
And thus hath so bestirred thee in thy sleep,[2352]
That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow,[2353] 55
Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream;[2354]
And in thy face strange motions have appear'd,
Such as we see when men restrain their breath
On some great sudden hest. O, what portents are these?[2355]
Some heavy business hath my lord in hand, 60
And I must know it, else he loves me not.

_Hot._ What, ho!

_Enter_ Servant.[2356]

Is Gilliams with the packet gone?

_Serv._ He is, my lord, an hour ago.[2357]

_Hot._ Hath Butler brought those horses from the sheriff?[2358]

_Serv._ One horse, my lord, he brought even now.[2359] 65

_Hot._ What horse? a roan, a crop-ear, is it not?[2360][2361]

_Serv._ It is, my lord.[2361]

_Hot._ That roan shall be my throne.[2362]
Well, I will back him straight: O esperance![2362][2363]
Bid Butler lead him forth into the park.[2362][2364] [_Exit Servant._

_Lady._ But hear you, my lord. 70

_Hot._ What say'st thou, my lady?

_Lady._ What is it carries you away?

_Hot._ Why, my horse, my love, my horse.[2365]

_Lady._ Out, you mad-headed ape![2366]
A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen[2366] 75
As you are toss'd with. In faith,[2366][2367]
I'll know your business, Harry, that I will.[2366]
I fear my brother Mortimer doth stir[2366]
About his title, and hath sent for you[2366]
To line his enterprize: but if you go,--[2366] 80

_Hot._ So far afoot, I shall be weary, love.

_Lady._ Come, come, you paraquito, answer me[2368]
Directly unto this question that I ask:[2368][2369]
In faith, I'll break thy little finger, Harry,[2368][2370]
An if thou wilt not tell me all things true.[2368][2371] 85

_Hot._ Away,[2372]
Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not,[2372][2373]
I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world
To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:[2374]
We must have bloody noses and crack'd crowns, 90
And pass them current too. God's me, my horse!
What say'st thou, Kate? what would'st thou have with me?[2375]

_Lady._ Do you not love me? do you not, indeed?[2376]
Well, do not then; for since you love me not,
I will not love myself. Do you not love me? 95
Nay, tell me if you speak in jest or no.[2377]

_Hot._ Come, wilt thou see me ride?[2378]
And when I am o' horseback, I will swear[2379]
I love thee infinitely. But hark you, Kate;
I must not have you henceforth question me 100
Whither I go, nor reason whereabout:[2380]
Whither I must, I must; and, to conclude,[2380]
This evening must I leave you, gentle Kate.[2381]
I know you wise, but yet no farther wise[2382]
Than Harry Percy's wife: constant you are, 105
But yet a woman: and for secrecy,
No lady closer; for I well believe[2383]
Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know;
And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate.[2384]

_Lady._ How! so far?[2385] 110

_Hot._ Not an inch further. But hark you, Kate:[2386]
Whither I go, thither shall you go too;
To-day will I set forth, to-morrow you.[2387]
Will this content you, Kate?

_Lady._ It must of force. [_Exeunt._

SCENE IV. _The Boar's-Head Tavern, Eastcheap._[2388]

_Enter the_ PRINCE, _and_ POINS.

_Prince._ Ned, prithee, come out of that fat room, and[2389]
lend me thy hand to laugh a little.

_Poins._ Where hast been, Hal?

_Prince._ With three or four loggerheads amongst three[2390]
or fourscore hogsheads. I have sounded the very base-string[2391] 5
of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash
of drawers; and can call them all by their christen[2392]
names, as Tom, Dick, and Francis. They take it already
upon their salvation, that though I be but Prince of Wales,[2393]
yet I am the king of courtesy; and tell me flatly I am no[2394] 10
proud Jack, like Falstaff, but a Corinthian, a lad of mettle,[2395]
a good boy, by the Lord, so they call me, and when I am[2396]
king of England, I shall command all the good lads in
Eastcheap. They call drinking deep, dyeing scarlet; and
when you breathe in your watering, they cry 'hem!' and[2397] 15
bid you play it off. To conclude, I am so good a proficient
in one quarter of an hour, that I can drink with any
tinker in his own language during my life. I tell thee,[2398]
Ned, thou hast lost much honour, that thou wert not with
me in this action. But, sweet Ned,--to sweeten which 20
name of Ned, I give thee this pennyworth of sugar,
clapped even now into my hand by an under-skinker, one
that never spake other English in his life than 'Eight
shillings and sixpence,' and 'You are welcome,' with this[2399]
shrill addition, 'Anon, anon, sir! Score a pint of bastard[2400] 25
in the Half-moon,' or so. But, Ned, to drive away the[2401]
time till Falstaff come, I prithee, do thou stand in some[2401]
by-room, while I question my puny drawer to what end he
gave me the sugar; and do thou never leave calling[2402]
'Francis,' that his tale to me may be nothing but 'Anon.' 30
Step aside, and I'll show thee a precedent.[2403]

_Poins._ Francis!

_Prince._ Thou art perfect.

_Poins._ Francis! [_Exit Poins._[2404]

_Enter_ FRANCIS.

_Fran._ Anon, anon, sir. Look down into the Pomgarnet,[2405] 35
Ralph.

_Prince._ Come hither, Francis.

_Fran._ My lord?

_Prince._ How long hast thou to serve, Francis?

_Fran._ Forsooth, five years, and as much as to-- 40

_Poins._ [_Within_] Francis![2406]

_Fran._ Anon, anon, sir.

_Prince._ Five year! by'r lady, a long lease for the[2407]
clinking of pewter. But, Francis, darest thou be so valiant[2408]
as to play the coward with thy indenture and show it a 45
fair pair of heels and run from it?[2409]

_Fran._ O Lord, sir, I'll be sworn upon all the books in[2410]
England, I could find in my heart.[2411]

_Poins._ [_Within_] Francis![2406]

_Fran._ Anon, sir.[2412] 50

_Prince._ How old art thou, Francis?

_Fran._ Let me see--about Michaelmas next I shall be--

_Poins._ [_Within_] Francis![2406]

_Fran._ Anon, sir. Pray stay a little, my lord.[2413]

_Prince._ Nay, but hark you, Francis: for the sugar 55
thou gavest me, 'twas a pennyworth, was't not?[2414]

_Fran._ O Lord, I would it had been two![2415]

_Prince._ I will give thee for it a thousand pound: ask
me when thou wilt, and thou shalt have it.

_Poins._ [_Within_] Francis![2406] 60

_Fran._ Anon, anon.

_Prince._ Anon, Francis? No, Francis; but to-morrow,
Francis; or Francis, o' Thursday; or indeed, Francis,[2416]
when thou wilt. But, Francis!

_Fran._ My lord? 65

_Prince._ Wilt thou rob this leathern jerkin, crystal-button,
not-pated, agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-garter,[2417]
smooth-tongue, Spanish-pouch,--

_Fran._ O lord, sir, who do you mean?

_Prince._ Why, then, your brown bastard is your only 70
drink; for look you, Francis, your white canvas doublet
will sully: in Barbary, sir, it cannot come to so much.[2418]

_Fran._ What, sir?

_Poins._ [_Within_] Francis![2406]

_Prince._ Away, you rogue! dost thou not hear them[2419] 75
call?

[_Here they both call him; the drawer stands amazed, not knowing
which way to go._[2420]

_Enter_ Vintner.

_Vint._ What, standest thou still, and hearest such a
calling? Look to the guests within. [_Exit Francis._] My[2421]
lord, old Sir John, with half-a-dozen more, are at the door:
shall I let them in? 80

_Prince._ Let them alone awhile, and then open the[2422]
door. [_Exit Vintner._] Poins![2423]

_Re-enter_ POINS.

_Poins._ Anon, anon, sir.

_Prince._ Sirrah, Falstaff and the rest of the thieves are
at the door: shall we be merry? 85

_Poins._ As merry as crickets, my lad. But hark ye;
what cunning match have you made with this jest of the
drawer? come, what's the issue?

_Prince._ I am now of all humours that have showed
themselves humours since the old days of goodman Adam 90
to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.[2424]

_Re-enter_ FRANCIS.

What's o'clock, Francis?

_Fran._ Anon, anon, sir. [_Exit._[2425]

_Prince._ That ever this fellow should have fewer
words than a parrot, and yet the son of a woman! His industry 95
is up-stairs and down-stairs; his eloquence the
parcel of a reckoning. I am not yet of Percy's mind, the
Hotspur of the north; he that kills me some six or seven
dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says[2426]
to his wife 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.' 'O 100
my sweet Harry,' says she, 'how many hast thou killed to-day?'
'Give my roan horse a drench,' says he; and answers
'Some fourteen,' an hour after; 'a trifle, a trifle.' I
prithee, call in Falstaff: I'll play Percy, and that damned
brawn shall play Dame Mortimer his wife. 'Rivo!' says[2427] 105
the drunkard. Call in ribs, call in tallow.

_Enter_ FALSTAFF, GADSHILL, BARDOLPH, _and_ PETO; FRANCIS
_following with wine_.[2428]

_Poins._ Welcome, Jack: where hast thou been?

_Fal._ A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance
too! marry, and amen! Give me a cup of sack, boy.
Ere I lead this life long, I'll sew nether stocks and mend[2429] 110
them and foot them too. A plague of all cowards! Give[2430]
me a cup of sack, rogue. Is there no virtue extant? [_He drinks._[2431]

_Prince._ Didst thou never see Titan kiss a dish of[2432]
butter? pitiful-hearted Titan, that melted at the sweet
tale[2432][2433][2434]
of the sun's! if thou didst, then behold that compound.[2434][2435] 115

_Fal._ You rogue, here's lime in this sack too: there is
nothing but roguery to be found in villanous man: yet[2436]
a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it. A[2437]
villanous coward! Go thy ways, old Jack; die when thou
wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be not forgot upon the 120
face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring. There live
not three good men unhanged in England; and one of
them is fat, and grows old: God help the while! a bad
world, I say. I would I were a weaver; I could sing
psalms or any thing. A plague of all cowards, I say still.[2438] 125

_Prince._ How now, wool-sack! what mutter you?

_Fal._ A king's son! If I do not beat thee out of thy
kingdom with a dagger of lath, and drive all thy subjects
afore thee like a flock of wild-geese, I'll never wear hair on
my face more. You Prince of Wales! 130

_Prince._ Why, you whoreson round man, what's the[2439]
matter?

_Fal._ Are not you a coward? answer me to that: and[2440]
Poins there?

_Poins._ 'Zounds, ye fat paunch, an ye call me coward,[2441] 135
by the Lord, I'll stab thee.[2442]

_Fal._ I call thee coward! I'll see thee damned ere I
call thee coward: but I would give a thousand pound I
could run as fast as thou canst. You are straight enough
in the shoulders, you care not who sees your back: call you 140
that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing!
give me them that will face me. Give me a cup of
sack: I am a rogue, if I drunk to-day.

_Prince._ O villain! thy lips are scarce wiped since thou
drunkest last. 145

_Fal._ All's one for that. [_He drinks._] A plague of all[2443]
cowards, still say I.

_Prince._ What's the matter?

_Fal._ What's the matter! there be four of us here have[2444]
ta'en a thousand pound this day morning.[2445] 150

_Prince._ Where is it, Jack? where is it?

_Fal._ Where is it! taken from us it is: a hundred upon
poor four of us.[2446]

_Prince._ What, a hundred, man?

_Fal._ I am a rogue, if I were not at half-sword with a[2447] 155
dozen of them two hours together. I have 'scaped by miracle.[2448]
I am eight times thrust through the doublet, four
through the hose; my buckler cut through and through;
my sword hacked like a hand-saw--ecce signum! I never
dealt better since I was a man: all would not do. A 160
plague of all cowards! Let them speak: if they speak
more or less than truth, they are villains and the sons of
darkness.

_Prince._ Speak, sirs; how was it?[2449]

_Gads._ We four set upon some dozen--[2450][2451] 165

_Fal._ Sixteen at least, my lord.

_Gads._ And bound them.[2450]

_Peto._ No, no, they were not bound.

_Fal._ You rogue, they were bound, every man of them;
or I am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew.[2452] 170

_Gads._ As we were sharing, some six or seven fresh[2450][2453]
men set upon us--

_Fal._ And unbound the rest, and then come in the[2454]
other.[2455]

_Prince._ What, fought you with them all?[2456] 175

_Fal._ All! I know not what you call all; but if I fought[2457]
not with fifty of them, I am a bunch of radish: if there were[2458]
not two or three and fifty upon poor old Jack, then am I
no two-legged creature.

_Prince._ Pray God you have not murdered some of[2459] 180
them.

_Fal._ Nay, that's past praying for: I have peppered
two of them; two I am sure I have paid, two rogues in
buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie,
spit in my face, call me horse. Thou knowest my old 185
ward; here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogues[2460]
in buckram let drive at me--

_Prince._ What, four? thou saidst but two even now.

_Fal._ Four, Hal; I told thee four.

_Poins._ Ay, ay, he said four. 190

_Fal._ These four came all a-front, and mainly thrust
at me. I made me no more ado but took all their seven[2461]
points in my target, thus.[2462]

_Prince._ Seven? why, there were but four even now.

_Fal._ In buckram?[2463] 195

_Poins._ Ay, four, in buckram suits.

_Fal._ Seven, by these hilts, or I am a villain else.

_Prince._ Prithee, let him alone; we shall have more
anon.

_Fal._ Dost thou hear me, Hal? 200

_Prince._ Ay, and mark thee too, Jack.

_Fal._ Do so, for it is worth the listening to. These
nine in buckram that I told thee of--

_Prince._ So, two more already.

_Fal._ Their points being broken,-- 205

_Poins._ Down fell their hose.[2464]

_Fal._ Began to give me ground: but I followed me[2465]
close, came in foot and hand; and with a thought seven of
the eleven I paid.

_Prince._ O monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out 210
of two!

_Fal._ But, as the devil would have it, three misbegotten
knaves in Kendal green came at my back and let drive at
me; for it was so dark, Hal, that thou couldst not see thy
hand. 215

_Prince._ These lies are like their father that begets[2466]
them; gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Why, thou
clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson,[2467]
obscene, greasy tallow-catch,--[2468]

_Fal._ What, art thou mad? art thou mad? is not the 220
truth the truth?

_Prince._ Why, how couldst thou know these men in
Kendal green, when it was so dark thou couldst not see
thy hand? come, tell us your reason: what sayest thou to
this? 225

_Poins._ Come, your reason, Jack, your reason.

_Fal._ What, upon compulsion? 'Zounds, an I were at[2469]
the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not
tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion!
if reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no[2470] 230
man a reason upon compulsion, I.

_Prince._ I'll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine
coward, this bed-presser, this horse-back-breaker,[2471]
this huge hill of flesh,--

_Fal._ 'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried[2472] 235
neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for[2473]
breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor's-yard, you[2474]
sheath, you bow-case, you vile standing-tuck,--

_Prince._ Well, breathe awhile, and then to it again:[2475]
and when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons, hear[2476] 240
me speak but this.[2477]

_Poins._ Mark, Jack.

_Prince._ We two saw you four set on four and bound[2478]
them, and were masters of their wealth. Mark now, how
a plain tale shall put you down. Then did we two set on[2479] 245
you four; and, with a word, out-faced you from your prize,[2480]
and have it; yea, and can show it you here in the house:[2481]
and, Falstaff, you carried your guts away as nimbly, with
as quick dexterity, and roared for mercy and still run and[2482]
roared, as ever I heard bull-calf. What a slave art thou, to[2483] 250
hack thy sword as thou hast done, and then say it was in
fight! What trick, what device, what starting-hole, canst
thou now find out to hide thee from this open and apparent
shame?

_Poins._ Come, let's hear, Jack; what trick hast thou 255
now?

_Fal._ By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made[2484]
ye. Why, hear you, my masters: was it for me to kill the[2485]
heir-apparent? should I turn upon the true prince? why,
thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules: but beware
instinct;[2486] 260
the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is
a great matter; I was now a coward on instinct. I shall[2487]
think the better of myself and thee during my life; I for
a valiant lion, and thou for a true prince. But, by the
Lord, lads, I am glad you have the money. Hostess, clap[2485] 265
to the doors: watch to-night, pray to-morrow. Gallants,[2488]
lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship[2489]
come to you! What, shall we be merry? shall we have a
play extempore?[2490]

_Prince._ Content; and the argument shall be thy 270
running away.

_Fal._ Ah, no more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me!

_Enter_ Hostess.[2491]

_Host._ O Jesu, my lord the prince![2492]

_Prince._ How now, my lady the hostess! what sayest
thou to me? 275

_Host._ Marry, my lord, there is a nobleman of the[2493]
court at door would speak with you: he says he comes
from your father.

_Prince._ Give him as much as will make him a royal
man, and send him back again to my mother. 280

_Fal._ What manner of man is he?

_Host._ An old man.

_Fal._ What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight?
Shall I give him his answer?

_Prince._ Prithee, do, Jack. 285

_Fal._ 'Faith, and I'll send him packing. [_Exit._

_Prince._ Now, sirs: by'r lady, you fought fair; so did[2494]
you, Peto; so did you, Bardolph: you are lions too, you[2495]
ran away upon instinct, you will not touch the true prince;
no, fie! 290

_Bard._ Faith, I ran when I saw others run.

_Prince._ Faith, tell me now in earnest, how came Falstaff's[2496]
sword so hacked?

_Peto._ Why, he hacked it with his dagger, and said he
would swear truth out of England but he would make you 295
believe it was done in fight, and persuaded us to do the like.

_Bard._ Yea, and to tickle our noses with spear-grass to[2497]
make them bleed, and then to beslubber our garments[2498]
with it and swear it was the blood of true men. I did
that I did not this seven year before, I blushed to hear his[2499] 300
monstrous devices.[2500]

_Prince._ O villain, thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen
years ago, and wert taken with the manner, and ever since[2501]
thou hast blushed extempore. Thou hadst fire and sword
on thy side, and yet thou rannest away: what instinct 305
hadst thou for it?

_Bard._ My lord, do you see these meteors? do you
behold these exhalations?

_Prince._ I do.

_Bard._ What think you they portend? 310

_Prince._ Hot livers and cold purses.

_Bard._ Choler, my lord, if rightly taken.

_Prince._ No, if rightly taken, halter.

_Re-enter_ FALSTAFF.[2502]

Here comes lean Jack, here comes bare-bone. How now,[2503]
my sweet creature of bombast! How long is't ago, Jack,[2504] 315
since thou sawest thine own knee?

_Fal._ My own knee! when I was about thy years, Hal,
I was not an eagle's talon in the waist; I could have crept[2505]
into any alderman's thumb-ring: a plague of sighing and[2506]
grief! it blows a man up like a bladder. There's villanous 320
news abroad: here was Sir John Bracy from your father;[2507]
you must to the court in the morning. That same mad[2508]
fellow of the north, Percy, and he of Wales, that gave
Amamon the bastinado and made Lucifer cuckold and[2509]
swore the devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh 325
hook--what a plague call you him?

_Poins._ O, Glendower.[2510]

_Fal._ Owen, Owen, the same; and his son-in-law Mortimer,[2511]
and old Northumberland, and that sprightly Scot[2512]
of Scots, Douglas, that runs o' horseback up a hill[2513] 330
perpendicular,--

_Prince._ He that rides at high speed and with his[2514]
pistol kills a sparrow flying.

_Fal._ You have hit it.

_Prince._ So did he never the sparrow. 335

_Fal._ Well, that rascal hath good mettle in him; he[2515]
will not run.

_Prince._ Why, what a rascal art thou then, to praise
him so for running!

_Fal._ O' horseback, ye cuckoo; but afoot he will not[2516] 340
budge a foot.

_Prince._ Yes, Jack, upon instinct.

_Fal._ I grant ye, upon instinct. Well, he is there too,
and one Mordake, and a thousand blue-caps more: Worcester
is stolen away to-night; thy father's beard is turned[2517] 345
white with the news: you may buy land now as cheap as
stinking mackerel.

_Prince._ Why, then, it is like, if there come a hot[2518]
June and this civil buffeting hold, we shall buy maidenheads[2519]
as they buy hob-nails, by the hundreds.[2520] 350

_Fal._ By the mass, lad, thou sayest true; it is like we
shall have good trading that way. But tell me, Hal, art not[2521][2522]
thou horrible afeard? thou being heir-apparent, could the[2522][2523]
world pick thee out three such enemies again as that fiend
Douglas, that spirit Percy, and that devil Glendower? art 355
thou not horribly afraid? doth not thy blood thrill at it?[2524]

_Prince._ Not a whit, i' faith; I lack some of thy instinct.[2525]

_Fal._ Well, thou wilt be horribly chid to-morrow when[2526]
thou comest to thy father: if thou love me, practise an[2527]
answer. 360

_Prince._ Do thou stand for my father, and examine
me upon the particulars of my life.

_Fal._ Shall I? content: this chair shall be my state,
this dagger my sceptre, and this cushion my crown.

_Prince._ Thy state is taken for a joined-stool, thy[2528] 365
golden sceptre for a leaden dagger, and thy precious rich
crown for a pitiful bald crown!

_Fal._ Well, an the fire of grace be not quite out of[2529]
thee, now shalt thou be moved. Give me a cup of sack to
make my eyes look red, that it may be thought I have[2530] 370
wept; for I must speak in passion, and I will do it in King
Cambyses' vein.

_Prince._ Well, here is my leg.[2531]

_Fal._ And here is my speech. Stand aside, nobility.

_Host._ O Jesu, this is excellent sport, i' faith![2532] 375

_Fal._ Weep not, sweet queen; for trickling tears are vain.[2533]

_Host._ O, the father, how he holds his countenance![2534]

_Fal._ For God's sake, lords, convey my tristful queen;[2535]
For tears do stop the flood-gates of her eyes.

_Host._ O Jesu, he doth it as like one of these harlotry[2536] 380
players as ever I see!

_Fal._ Peace, good pint-pot; peace, good tickle-brain.
Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time,
but also how thou art accompanied: for though the camomile,
the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet[2537] 385
youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears. That thou[2538]
art my son, I have partly thy mother's word, partly my
own opinion, but chiefly a villanous trick of thine eye and[2539]
a foolish hanging of thy nether lip, that doth warrant me.[2540]
If then thou be son to me, here lies the point; why, being[2541] 390
son to me, art thou so pointed at? Shall the blessed sun[2542]
of heaven prove a micher and eat blackberries? a question
not to be asked. Shall the son of England prove a thief
and take purses? a question to be asked. There is a thing,
Harry, which thou hast often heard of and it is known to 395
many in our land by the name of pitch: this pitch, as ancient
writers do report, doth defile; so doth the company thou
keepest: for, Harry, now I do not speak to thee in drink
but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words
only, but in woes also: and yet there is a virtuous man 400
whom I have often noted in thy company, but I know not
his name.

_Prince._ What manner of man, an it like your majesty?[2543]

_Fal._ A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of[2544]
a cheerful look, a pleasing eye and a most noble carriage; 405
and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r lady, inclining to
three score; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff:
if that man should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me; for,[2545]
Harry, I see virtue in his looks. If then the tree may be[2546]
known by the fruit, as the fruit by the tree, then,[2546] 410
peremptorily I speak it, there is virtue in that Falstaff: him keep
with, the rest banish. And tell me now, thou naughty[2547]
varlet, tell me, where hast thou been this month?

_Prince._ Dost thou speak like a king? Do thou stand
for me, and I'll play my father. 415

_Fal._ Depose me? if thou dost it half so gravely, so[2548]
majestically, both in word and matter, hang me up by the[2549]
heels for a rabbit-sucker or a poulter's hare.[2550]

_Prince._ Well, here I am set.

_Fal._ And here I stand: judge, my masters. 420

_Prince._ Now, Harry, whence come you?

_Fal._ My noble lord, from Eastcheap.

_Prince._ The complaints I hear of thee are grievous.

_Fal._ 'Sblood, my lord, they are false: nay, I'll tickle ye[2551]
for a young prince, i' faith.[2552] 425

_Prince._ Swearest thou, ungracious boy? henceforth
ne'er look on me. Thou art violently carried away from
grace: there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an old[2553]
fat man; a tun of man is thy companion. Why dost thou[2553]
converse with that trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of[2554] 430
beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard
of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted
Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly, that[2555]
reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that[2556]
vanity in years? Wherein is he good, but to taste sack 435
and drink it? wherein neat and cleanly, but to carve a capon
and eat it? wherein cunning, but in craft? wherein crafty,
but in villany? wherein villanous, but in all things? wherein
worthy, but in nothing?

_Fal._ I would your grace would take me with you: 440
whom means your grace?

_Prince._ That villanous abominable misleader of youth,
Falstaff, that old white-bearded Satan.[2557]

_Fal._ My lord, the man I know.

_Prince._ I know thou dost. 445

_Fal._ But to say I know more harm in him than in myself,
were to say more than I know. That he is old, the
more the pity, his white hairs do witness it; but that he is,[2558]
saving your reverence, a whoremaster, that I utterly deny.
If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! if to be[2559] 450
old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know
is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean
kine are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish Peto,
banish Bardolph, banish Poins: but for sweet Jack Falstaff,
kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, 455
and therefore more valiant, being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff,
banish not him thy Harry's company, banish not him[2560]
thy Harry's company: banish plump Jack, and banish all
the world.

_Prince._ I do, I will. [_A knocking-heard._[2561] 460

[_Exeunt Hostess, Francis, and Bardolph._

_Re-enter_ BARDOLPH, _running_.[2562]

_Bard._ O, my lord, my lord! the sheriff with a most[2563]
monstrous watch is at the door.[2564]

_Fal._ Out, ye rogue! Play out the play: I have much[2565]
to say in the behalf of that Falstaff.

_Re-enter the_ Hostess.[2566]

_Host._ O Jesu, my lord, my lord!--[2567] 465

_Prince._ Heigh, heigh! the devil rides upon a[2568]
fiddlestick: what's the matter?

_Host._ The sheriff and all the watch are at the door:
they are come to search the house. Shall I let them in?

_Fal._ Dost thou hear, Hal? never call a true piece of gold[2569] 470
a counterfeit: thou art essentially mad, without seeming so.[2570]

_Prince._ And thou a natural coward, without instinct.[2571]

_Fal._ I deny your major: if you will deny the sheriff, so;
if not, let him enter: if I become not a cart as well as another
man, a plague on my bringing up! I hope I shall as 475
soon be strangled with a halter as another.

_Prince._ Go, hide thee behind the arras: the rest walk
up above. Now, my masters, for a true face and good[2572]
conscience.

_Fal._ Both which I have had: but their date is out, and 480
therefore I'll hide me.

_Prince._ Call in the sheriff.

[_Exeunt all except the Prince and Peto._

_Enter_ Sheriff _and the_ Carrier.[2573]

Now, master sheriff, what is your will with me?[2574]

_Sher._ First, pardon me, my lord. A hue and cry[2575]
Hath follow'd certain men unto this house.[2575] 485

_Prince._ What men?

_Sher._ One of them is well known, my gracious lord,[2575][2576]
A gross fat man.[2575][2577]

_Car._ As fat as butter.

_Prince._ The man, I do assure you, is not here;
For I myself at this time have employ'd him. 490
And, sheriff, I will engage my word to thee[2578]
That I will, by to-morrow dinner-time,
Send him to answer thee, or any man,
For any thing he shall be charged withal:
And so let me entreat you leave the house. 495

_Sher._ I will, my lord. There are two gentlemen
Have in this robbery lost three hundred marks.[2579]

_Prince._ It may be so: if he have robb'd these men,
He shall be answerable; and so farewell.

_Sher._ Good night, my noble lord. 500

_Prince._ I think it is good morrow, is it not?

_Sher._ Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o'clock.

[_Exeunt Sheriff and Carrier._[2580]

_Prince._ This oily rascal is known as well as Paul's.
Go, call him forth.

_Peto._ Falstaff!--Fast asleep behind the arras, and[2581] 505
snorting like a horse.

_Prince._ Hark, how hard he fetches breath. Search[2582]
his pockets. [_He searcheth his pockets, and findeth certain[2583]
papers._] What hast thou found?

_Peto._ Nothing but papers, my lord.[2581] 510

_Prince._ Let's see what they be: read them.[2584]

_Peto._ [reads] +Item, A capon, 2s. 2d.+[2585]
+Item, Sauce, 4d.+
+Item, Sack, two gallons, 5s. 8d.+
+Item, Anchovies and sack after
supper, 2s. 6d.+[2586] 515
+Item, Bread, ob.+[2587]

_Prince._ O monstrous! but one half-pennyworth of bread
to this intolerable deal of sack! What there is else, keep
close; we'll read it at more advantage: there let him sleep
till day. I'll to the court in the morning. We must all to 520
the wars, and thy place shall be honourable. I'll procure
this fat rogue a charge of foot; and I know his death will
be a march of twelve-score. The money shall be paid back[2588]
again with advantage. Be with me betimes in the morning;
and so, good morrow, Peto.[2589] [_Exeunt._ 525

_Peto._ Good morrow, good my lord.[2581]

FOOTNOTES:

[2227] Rochester ... yard.] Capell. An Inne. Pope. An Inn at Rochester. Theobald.

Enter....] Qq Ff.

[2228] _an it_] Qq. _an't_ Ff.

[2229] [Within] Theobald.

[2230] _poor_] Qq. _the poor_ Ff. See note (X).

[2231] _cess_] _case_ Hanmer.

Enter....] Qq Ff.

[2232] _dog_] _bog_ Becket conj. _dock_ Barry conj.

[2233] _that_] Qq. _this_ Ff.

[2234] _Ostler_] Qq. _the Ostler_ Ff.

[2235] _never_] _he never_ Collier MS.

[2236] _be_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _to be_ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. _is_ Ff.

[2237] _tench ... tench_] _trout ... trout_ Farmer conj.

[2238] _by the mass_] Omitted in Ff.

[2239] _christen_] Qq. _in Christendom_ Ff.

[2240] _they_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. _thou_ Q₄. _you_ Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.

[2241] _your_] _the_ Hanmer.

[2242] _razes_] Qq Ff. _races_ Dyce.

[2243] _God's body_] Qq. om. Ff. _'Odsbody_ Pope.

_pannier_] _panniers_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2244] _An_] Pope. _And_ Qq Ff.

[2245] _deed_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _a deed_.

_on_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest _of_.

[2246] Enter....] Qq Ff.

[2247] _by God, soft_] Qq. _soft I pray ye_ Ff.

[2248] _i' faith_] Qq. om. Ff.

[2249] _pray thee_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _prethee_.

[2250] _quoth he_] Qq. _quoth-a_ Ff.

[2251] [Exeunt Carriers.] Exeunt Qq Ff.

[2252] SCENE II. Pope.

[2253] [Within] Capell.

[2254] _quoth_] _qd._ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2255] Enter....] Qq Ff (after line 44).

[2256] _pray thee_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _prethee_.

[2257] _knowest_] _knowes_ Q₅ Q₆.

_he is_] Qq. _hee's_ F₁ F₂. _he's_ F₃ F₄.

[2258] _own_] om. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2259] _foot-land rakers_] _footlande rakers_ Q₁. _footland rakers_ Q₂. _foote-land rakers_ Q₃. _foot land rakers_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. _foot-land-rakers_ Ff. _foot land-rakers_ Theobald.

[2260] _these_] _those_ Rowe.

[2261] _tranquillity_] _sanguinity_ Collier conj. _gentility_ Keightley conj.

[2262] _oneyers_] _oneyres_ Q₁. _oneeyers_ Pope. _oneraires_ Id. conj. _moneyers_ Theobald (Hardinge conj.). _seignors_ Theobald conj. _owners_ Hanmer. _one-eers_ Johnson conj. _mynheers_ Capell. _onyers_ Malone conj. _ones, yes_ Collier MS. _wan-dyers_ Jackson conj. See note (XI).

[2263] _strike ... speak, and speak ... drink, and drink_] _strike ... drink, and drink ... speak, and speak_ Seymour conj.

[2264] _drink ... drink_] _think ... think_ Hanmer (Warburton). _swink ... swink_ Becket conj.

[2265] _'zounds_] Qq. om. Ff.

to] Qq. unto Ff.

[2266] _pray_] Qq. _to pray_ Ff.

[2267] _pray ... prey_] Q₅ Q₆ F₁ Q₇ Q₈ F₃ F₄. _pray ... pray_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _prey ... pray_ F₂.

[2268] _and make_] _or make_ Hanmer.

[2269] _by my faith_] Qq. om. Ff.

_I think_] Qq. _I think rather_ Ff.

_beholding_] _beholden_ Pope.

[2270] _to fern-seed_] Qq. _to the fern seed_ F₁. _the fern seed_ F₂. _the fern-seed_ F₃ F₄.

[2271] _purchase_] Qq. _purpose_ Ff, reading lines 86, 87 as three lines, ending _hand ... purpose ... man_.

[2272] _my_] Qq. _the_ Ff.

[2273] _you_] Q₁. The rest _ye_.

[Exeunt.] Ff. om. Qq.

[2274] SCENE II.] SCENE III. Pope.]

The highway ...] The highway. Pope. Gadshill. The road down it. Capell.

Enter ...] Capell. Enter Prince, Poines, and Peto, &c. Qq. Enter Prince, Poynes, and Peto. Ff.

[2275] [Putting himself before him. Capell.

[2276] _brawling_] _bawling_ Rowe.

[2277] _Where's_] Q₁. The rest _What_.

[2278] [Feigning to go. Capell.

[2279] _thief's_] _theefe_ F₁.

_the_] Qq. _that_ Ff.

[2280] _him_] _them_ Q₆.

[2281] _squier_] _squaire_ Q₈. _square_ F₃ F₄. The rest _squire_.

[2282] _two and twenty_] Ff. xxii. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. 22. Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2283] _years_] _yeares_ Q₁. The rest _yeare, year_, or _yeer_.

[2284] _upon_] _on_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2285] _Bardolph_] Ff. _Bardoll_ Qq.

_I'll rob_] _I rob_ Ff.

_rob_] _rub_ Johnson conj.

[2286] _An_] Pope. _And_ QqFf.

_as drink_] Qq. _as to drinke_ Ff.

[2287] _to leave_] _leave Reed_ (1813).

_these_] _those_ F₂.

[2288] _upon it_] Qq. _upon't_ Ff.

[2289] [They whistle.] QqFf.

[2290] _plague_] Qq. _plague light_ Ff.

_Give me_] _Give_ F₁ F₂.

[2291] _canst_] Q₁. The rest _can_.

[2292] _'Sblood_] om. Ff.

[2293] _ye_] Q₁. The rest _you_.

[2294] _Go_] om. Q₁ Q₂. _thine_] _thy_ F₄. _garters_] _garter_ Farmer conj. MS.

[2295] _An_] Pope. _And_ QqFf.

[2296] _on you all_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _on all_.

[2297] _a jest_] Q₁ Ff. _jest_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2298] Enter ... him.] Capell. Enter Gadshill. QqFf. Enter Gadshill and Bardolph. Rowe.

[2299] _Bardolph, what news?_] _Bard. What news?_ Johnson. See note (XII).

[2300] Bard.] Gadsh. Johnson conj.

[2301] _ye rogue_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _you rogue_.

[2302] _all._] _all:_ Q₁ Q₂.

[2303] _Sirs_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest omit.

[2304] _Poins_] Qq. om. Ff.

[2305] _How ... there_] Q₁. _How ... they_ Q₂. _But how ... they_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. _But how many be_ Ff.

[2306] _'Zounds_] om. Ff.

[2307] _your_] _our_ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇.

[2308] _Well, we_] Q₁ Q₂. _Well, weele_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. _Wee'l_ F₁ F₂. _We'll_ F₃ F₄.

[2309] _thou shalt_] _shalt thou_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2310] Exeunt ...] Malone. Retiring, to put them on. Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[2311] _I_] om. Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2312] Enter the ...] Qq. Enter ... Ff.

[2313] SCENE IV. Pope.

First Trav.] I. T. Capell. Travel., Travai. or Tra. Qq Ff (and in lines 77, 81).

[2314] Printed as verse by Capell.

[2315] _Stand_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _Stay_ Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.

[2316] _Jesus_] Qq. _Jesu_ Ff.

[2317] _ah!_] Rowe. _a_ Qq Ff.

[2318] _are ye_] Qq. _are you_ Ff.

[2319] _knaves!_] _knaves!--on, I say;_ Capell.

[2320] _are ye_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄.

_ye, 'faith_] _ye faith_ Q₁ Q₂. _yee yfaith_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _ye yfaith_ Q₆. _you, yfayth_ Q₇. _you, yfaith_ Q₈. _ye ifaith_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _ye i'faith_ F₄.

Here ...them.] Qq Ff.

Exeunt.] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest omit.

Here ... Exeunt.] Exeunt, driving them out. Capell.

Re-enter ... disguised.] Enter the Prince and Poynes. Qq Ff. om. Capell.

[2321] [looking out. Capell.

[2322] [retire again. Capell.

[2323] Enter the Thieves again.] Qq. Enter Theeves again. Ff.

[2324] _arrant_] _arrand_ Q₃ Ff.

_more_] _moe_ Ff. om. Q₈.

[2325] As ... them] Qq. and Falstaff ... too] omitted in Ff.

[2326] _The thieves ... him._] Printed as prose in Qq Ff. First as verse by Pope.

[2327] _all_] Q₁. The rest omit.

[2328] _takes_] _take_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2329] _Falstaff_] _Now Falstaff_ Pope. _Fat Falstaff_ Capell.

_sweats_] _sweares_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _sweare_ Q₆.

[2330] SCENE III.] SCENE V. Pope.

Warkworth Castle.] Warkworth. A room in the Castle. Capell. Lord Percy's house. Pope.

[2331] _bear_] _boar_ Q₈.

[2332] _contented_] _contented to be there_ Pope.

_In respect_] Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈. _In the respect_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.

[2333] _we_] _we'll_ Collier MS.

_pluck_] _pluckt_ Q₇ Q₈.

[2334] _have_ om. Q₇ Q₈.

[2335] _By the Lord_] Qq. _I protest_ Ff.

[2336] _a good_] Qq. _as good a_ Ff.

_our friends_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ F₃ F₄. _our friend_ Q₄ Q₆ F₁ Q₇ F₂ Q₈. _our frind_ Q₅.

[2337] _'Zounds_]Qq. _By this hand_ Ff.

_an_] Capell. _and_ Qq. _if_ Ff.

[2338] _are they_] _are there_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2339] _an_] Q₁. _An_ Ff. _and_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. _&_ Q₈.

[2340] _skim_] Qq. _skim'd_ Ff.

[2341] _king: we_] _king. We_ Pope. _King, we_ Qq. _King we_ Ff.

_forward_] Qq. _forwards_ Ff.

[2342] Enter Lady Percy.] Enter his Lady. Qq Ff.

[2343] SCENE VI. Pope.

_these_] _this_ Q₈.

[2344] _thine_] _thy_ F₃ F₄.

_upon_] _unto_ Q₈.

[2345] _thy faint_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _my faint. My feign'd_ Anon. conj.

_have_] om. Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2346] _thee murmur_] _the murmur,_ Q₁.

[2347] _of trenches_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _trenches_.

_tents_] _and tents_ Q₈.

[2348] _frontiers_] _fortins_ Hanmer. _rondeurs_ Warburton conj.

[2349] _prisoners' ransom_] _prisoners ransom'd_ Capell conj.

[2350] _currents_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. _current,_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _current_ Ff Q₇ Q₈. _'currents_ Capell. _occurrents_ Collier MS.

[2351] _spirit_] _spirt_ F₂.

[2352] _thus hath_] _thou hast_ Capell conj. _this hath_ Anon conj.

_thus ... bestirr'd_] _thought ... disturb’d_ Johnson conj.

[2353] _beads_] Q₁. The rest _beds_.

_have_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₇ Q₈. _hath_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Ff.

[2354] _in_] _on_ Long MS.

[2355] _sudden_] om. Steevens conj.

_hest_] Q₁. _haste_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₇ Q₈ F₃ F₄. _hast_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₁ F₂.

[2356] Enter Servant.] Rowe, after the line. Enter a Servant. Dering MS., before the line. om. Qq Ff.

[2357] _an hour_] _above an hour_ Steevens conj.

_ago_] _agone_ Ff.

[2358] _brought_] _bought_ F₂. _hath brought_ Keightley conj.

_sheriff_] _sheriffes_ Q₇ Q₈.

[2359] _even now_] _but even now_ Capell.

[2360] _a roan_] _roane_ Q₁ Q₂.

[2361] _is it not?_ Serv. _It is_] _is't not?_ Serv. _'Tis_ S. Walker conj., reading _What horse ... lord_ as one line.

[2362] _That ... park_] Printed as prose in Qq Ff. First as verse by Pope.

[2363] _O_] om. Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.

[2364] [Exit Servant.] Hanmer and Dering MS. om. Qq Ff.

[2365] _Why_] om. Steevens, reading 72, 73, 74 as two lines.

[2366] _Out ... go_] As in Malone. Printed as prose in Qq Ff. Pope ends the lines, _not ... with ... will_ (omitting _Harry_ in line 77). Hanmer ends _hath ... with ... will_. Johnson ends _ape ... spleen ... with ... will_, (omitting _Harry_).

[2367] _In faith_] Qq. _In sooth_ Ff. _Now, in sooth, in sooth_ Capell.

[2368] _Come ... true_] First as verse by Pope. As prose in Qq Ff.

[2369] _unto_] _to_ Pope.

_that I ask_] _I shall ask_ Pope.

_ask_] Q₁. The rest _shall ask_.

[2370] _In faith_] Qq. _Indeede_ Ff. om. Pope.

[2371] _An if_] Capell. _And if_ Qq. _if_ Ff.

_all things_] Omitted in Ff.

[2372] As one line in Qq Ff.

_Away, Away_] _Away_ Hanmer.

Hot. _Away ... not_] Hot. _Away, you trifler._ Lady. _Love!_ Hot. _I ... not._ Johnson conj.

[2373] _Love,_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _Love;_ The rest. _Love!_ Rowe. _love?_ Malone.

[2374] _mammets_] _mammels_ Anon. (ap. _Gent. Mag._) conj.

[2375] _what wouldst_] _would'st_ F₂.

[2376] _you ... you_] Qq. _ye ... ye_ F₁. _ye ... you_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2377] _you speak_] Qq. _thou speak'st_ Ff.

[2378] _Come_] _Come to the park, Kate_ Collier MS.

[2379] _o'_] Theobald. _a_ Qq Ff.

[2380] _Whither_] Qq F₂ F₄. _Whether_ F₁ F₃.

[2381] _you_] Qq. _thee_ Ff.

[2382] _farther_] Qq. _further_ Ff.

[2383] _well_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _will_.

[2384] _far will_] _farewill_ Q₅. _farre, wilt_ F₁.

[2385] _How! so far?_] _How, so far._ Q₁. _How, so far?_ the other Quartos. _How so farre?_ Ff. _So far?_ Capell.

[2386] _further_] Qq Ff.

_hark you_] _hark you me_ Hanmer.

[2387] _forth_] _forward_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2388] SCENE IV.] SCENE VII. Pope.

[2389] _fat_] _hot_ Keightley conj.

[2390] _three_] _3._ F₁ F₂.

[2391] _sounded_] _founded_ Q₆ Q₇.

[2392] _all_] Qq. om. Ff.

_christen_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _Christian_ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. om. Ff.

[2393] _salvation_] Qq. _confidence_ Ff. _conscience_ Pope.

_but_] om. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2394] _and tell_] Qq. _telling_ Ff.

_no_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ F₁. The rest _not_.

[2395] _Jack, like_] _like Jack_ F₄. _Jack, like Jack_ Pope.

[2396] _by ... me_] Omitted in Ff.

[2397] _breathe_] _breake_ F₂. _break_ F₃ F₄.

_they_] Qq. _then they_ Ff.

_hem_] _pem_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2398] _tell_] _will tell_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2399] _welcome_] _welcome, Sir_ Rowe.

[2400] _Anon, anon_] _Anon Sir, anon_ F₃ F₄.

[2401] _the time_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _time_.

[2402] _thou_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest omit.

[2403] _precedent_] Pope. _president_ Ff. _present_ Qq.

[P. retires. Theobald.

[2404] [Exit P.] Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[2405] Enter Francis.] Enter Drawer. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Ff. om. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[SCENE VIII.] Pope.

_Pomgarnet_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Ff. _Pomgranet_ Q₆. _pomegranat_ Q₇ Q₈.

[2406] [Within] Capell.

[2407] _year_] _yeare_ Q₁. _yeere_ Q₂. The rest _yeares, yeeres_, or _years_.

_by'r lady_] Pope. _berlady_ Qq Ff.

[2408] _clinking_] _chincking_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2409] _heels_] _heele_ F₂.

[2410] _the books_] _bookes_ Q₄ Q₅.

[2411] _find_] _find it_ Collier MS.

[2412] _Anon_] Qq. _Anon, anon_ Ff.

[2413] _Pray_] Q₁. The rest _Pray you_.

[2414] _a_] _but a_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2415] _I_] Qq. _sir, I_ Ff.

[2416] _o'_] _a_ Q₁ Q₂. The rest _on_.

[2417] _not-pated_] Qq Ff. _knot-pated_ Pope. _notty-patted_ Keightley conj.

_puke stocking_] _poke-stocking_ Capell conj.

[2418] _Barbary_] _Barbican_ Grey conj.

[2419] _not_] om. Ff.

[2420] Here....] Qq Ff.

[2421] [Exit F.] Exit Drawer. Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[2422] _them_] _then_ Q₄.

[2423] [Exit Vintner.] Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

Re-enter P.] Enter P. Qq Ff.

[2424] _clock_] _cloke_ Q₆.

Re-enter F.] Re-enter Drawer with bottles. Capell. om. QqFf.

[2425] Fran.] Fran. [Within. Dering MS.

[Exit.] Delius. om. QqFf.

[2426] _at a_] _after_ Anon. conj.

[2427] _Rivo_] _Ribi_ Hanmer. _Bibo_ Collier conj.

[2428] Enter ...wine.] Edd. Enter ... Peto. Theobald. Enter Falstaffe. QqFf.

SCENE IX. Pope.

[2429] _stocks_] _socks_ Rowe.

[2430] _and foot them_] Qq. Omitted in Ff.

[2431] [He drinks.] He drinketh. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest omit.

[2432] _Titan ... Titan_] _Titan, pitiful-hearted Titan, kiss a dish of butter_ Jervis conj.

[2433] _pitiful-hearted Titan_] _pitiful-hearted butter_ Theobald. (_pitiful hearted Titan!_) Warburton. _pitiful-hearted Titaness_ Anon. apud Fras. Mag. conj.

_at the_] _at that_ or _at a_ Anon. conj.

[2434] _sweet tale of the sun's_] _sweet face of the sun_ Hanmer. _sweet ale of the 'Sun'_ Jackson conj.

[2435] _the sun's_] _the sonnes_ Q₁ Q₂. _the sunne_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁ F₂. _the sun_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈ F₃ F₄. _his son_ Steevens conj. _the son_ Malone. _thy son_ Id. conj. _the sons_ Boswell (1821).

_didst_] _didst never_ Keightley conj.

_then_] _there_ Mitford conj.

[2436] _villanous_] _a villanous_ F₂.

[2437] _in it_] om. Ff.

[2438] _psalms or any thing_] Qq _all manner of songs_ Ff. _psalms and all manner of songs_ Pope.

[2439] _round man_] _round-man_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃.

[2440] _not you_] Q₁. The rest _you not_.

[2441] Poins.] Prin. Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈ Ff.

_'Zounds_] Qq. om. Ff.

_fat_] _fatch_ F₁ F₂.

_an_] Pope. _and_ QqFf.

[2442] _by the Lord_] Qq. om. Ff.

[2443] _All's_] _All is_ Q₁ Q₂.

[He drinks.] Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈. He drinketh. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[2444] _there_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _here_.

_here_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest omit.

[2445] _day_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest omit.

[2446] _of_] om. Malone.

[2447] _at_] _a_ Q₆.

[2448] _'scaped_] _escaped_ F₃ F₄. The rest _scaped_.

[2449] Prince.] Ff. Gad. Qq.

[2450] Gads.] Gad. Ff. Ross. Qq. Bard. Collier.

[2451] _some_] _a_ Q₇ Q₈.

[2452] _an Ebrew_] _and Ebrew_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _an Hebrew_ Q₇ Q₈.

[2453] _six or seven_] _6. or 7._ Q₃ Q₄ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2454] _come_] _came_ Q₈ F₃ F₄.

[2455] _other_] _others_ Capell conj.

[2456] _you_] Q₁. The rest _yee_ or _ye_.

[2457] _you_] Q₁ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. _ye_ Q₂ F₂ F₃ F₄.] _yee_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁.

[2458] _of radish_] _radish_ Q₆.

[2459] Prince.] Q₄. Prin. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. Poines. Q₅. Poin. Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.

_God_] Qq. _Heaven_ Ff.

[2460] _ward_] Q₃. _warde_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₄. The rest _word_.

[2461] _me_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest omit.

[2462] _points_] _point_ Q₈.

[2463] Fal.] Continue to Prince. Malone conj.

_buckram?_] Capell (Whalley conj.). _buckrom._ QqFf (_buccorom._ Q₆).

[2464] _their_] Q₁. The rest _his_.

[2465] _followed me_] _followed 'em_ Delius conj.

[2466] _their_] Q₁. The rest _the_.

[2467] _knotty-pated_] Qq Ff. _nott-pated_ Dyce (Douce conj.).

[2468] _tallow-catch_] _tallow chest_ Dering MS. (correction), _tallow-ketch_ Hanmer. _tallow-keech_ Steevens (Johnson conj.). _tallow-cask_ Smyth conj. MS.

[2469] _'Zounds, an I were_] _Zoundes, and I were_ Qq. _No: were I_ Ff.

[2470] _plentiful_] Q₁. _plentie_ Q₂ F₁. The rest _plenty_.

[2471] _bed-presser_] _bed-pressen_ Q₄.

_horse-back-breaker_] _horse'-back-breaker_ Dyce (S. Walker conj.).

[2472] _'Sblood_] _Zbloud_ or _Zblood_ Qq. _Away_ Ff.

_elf-skin_] _eel-skin_ Hanmer. _elf-kin_ Johnson conj. _elfin_ Rann conj.

[2473] _tongue, you_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest omit _you_.

[2474] _utter what ... thee!_] _utter what ... thee,_ Q₁. _utter, what ... thee?_ Q₂. _utter! what ... thee?_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _utter what ... thee?_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. _utter. What ... thee?_ Ff.

[2475] _to it_] Qq. _to't_ Ff.

[2476] _tired_] _tried_ Q₅.

[2477] _this_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _thus_.

[2478] _four and_] Qq Ff. _four, you_ Pope. _four, and you_ Delius.

_bound_] _bind_ Collier (ed. 2).

[2479] _a plain_] _plain a_ Capell (corrected in his Notes). See note (XIII).

[2480] _your_] om. Q₈.

[2481] _here_] om. Ff.

[2482] _run_] Qq. _ran_ Ff.

[2483] _roared_] _roard_ Q₁. _roare_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. _roar'd_ Ff.

[2484] _By the Lord_] Omitted in Ff.

[2485] _you_] Qq. _ye_ Ff.

_my_] om. Q₇ Q₈.

[2486] _beware_] _by mere_ Long MS.

[2487] _now_] Q₁. The rest omit.

[2488] [to Hostess within. Dyce.

[2489] _titles of good_] Qq. _good titles of_ Ff.

[2490] _extempore_] _extempory_ F₁ F₂ F₃.

[2491] _Ah_] _A_ Qq Ff.

_an_] Capell. _and_ Qq F₁ F₂. _if_ F₃ F₄.

Enter Hostess.] Qq Ff. Capell puts it after _lads_, line 265.

[2492] SCENE X. Pope.

_O Jesu_] omitted in Ff.

[2493] _lord_] _Lord_ Ff. _Lo._ Q₁. The rest _L._

[2494] _by’r lady_] _birlady_ Qq. om. Ff.

[2495] _did you_] _did yon_ F₂.

_lions too, you_] _lions, to you_ Q₁. _lions to, you_] Q₂.

[2496] _Faith, tell_] _Tell_ Ff.

[2497] Bard.] Ff. Bar. Q₁. The rest Car.

_to tickle_] _tickle_ F₃ F₄.

[2498] _to beslubber_] _beslubber_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2499] _year_] _yeares_ or _years_ Q₄ Q₅ F₁ Q₈.

_blushed_] _blush_ Q₇ Q₈.

[2500] _devices_] _devizes_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.

[2501] _with the manner_] _in the manner_ Pope. _in the manour_ Hanmer.

[2502] Re-enter F.] Enter F. Ff. Enter F. Qq (after line 312).

[2503] _bare-bone_] _bare-bones_ Q₈.

SCENE XI. Pope.

[2504] _my_] om. Q₈.

_bombast_] _bumbast_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃.

[2505] _talon_] F₄. _tallon_ Q₇ Q₈. The rest _talent_.

[2506] _alderman’s_] _alderma’s_ Q₄. _aldermas_ Q₅ Q₆.

[2507] _Bracy_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _Braby_.

[2508] _to_] _goo to_ Q₅. _goe to_ Q₆ F₁ Q₇ F₂ Q₈. _go to_ F₃ F₄.

_That_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest _The_.

[2509] _Amamon_] _Amaimon_ Capell.

[2510] _O,_] _Owen_ Dering MS.

[2511] _Owen, Owen_] _Owen Glendower_ Q₇ Q₈.

[2512] _that_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _the_.

_sprightly_] _sprightie_ Q₃. _sprighly_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.

[2513] _o'_] Capell. _a_ Qq Ff.

[2514] _his_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _a_.

[2515] _hath_] _had_ Warburton.

[2516] _O'_] Capell. _A_ Qq Ff.

_afoot_] _on foot_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2517] _to-night_] _to night_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest _by night_.

[2518] _Why_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest omit.

_it is_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _tis_ or _'tis_.

[2519] _June_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. _Sun_ Q₄ F₃ F₄. The rest _Sunne_.

[2520] _hundreds_] _hundred_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[2521] _art_] _are_ F₂.

[2522] _not thou_] _thou not_ Capell.

[2523] _horrible_] _horribly_ Q₃ Q₇ Q₈.

[2524] _thou not_] _not thou_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁.

_horribly_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₇ Q₈. The rest _horrible_.

[2525] _i' faith_] om. Ff.

[2526] _horribly_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₇ Q₈. _horriblie_ Q₁. _horrible_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Ff.

[2527] _love_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _doe love_.

[2528] _stool_] _stole_ Q₅.

[2529] Fal.] Prin. F₂.

_an_] Pope. _and_ Qq Ff.

[2530] _my_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _mine_.

[2531] _is my leg_] _it is, my liege_ Long MS.

[2532] _O Jesu_] om. Ff.

[2533] As prose in Ff.

[2534] _how_] _how how_ Q₃ Q₄.

[2535] _tristful_] Rowe and Dering MS. _trustfull_ Qq Ff.

[2536] _O Jesu_] Qq. _O rare_ Ff.

_these_] _those_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[2537] _on_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest omit.

_yet_] _so_ Q₁ Q₂.

[2538] _That thou_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _Thou_.

[2539] _own_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest omit.

[2540] _thy_] _the_ Q₄.

[2541] _lies_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _lieth_ or _lyeth_.

[2542] _sun_] _sunne_ Q₁. The rest _sonne_ (_son_ F₄).

[2543] _an_] Pope, _and_ Qq Ff.

[2544] _goodly_] _good_ Malone.

[2545] _deceiveth_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _deceives_.

[2546] _tree ... fruit ... fruit ... tree_] _fruit ... tree ... tree ... fruit_ Hanmer.

[2547] _with_] _with thee_ Keightley conj.

[2548] _me?_] Theobald. _me,_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. _me;_ Q₃ Q₄. _me:_ Ff.

[2549] _matter_] _manner_ Capell conj.

[2550] _poulter's_] _poulterer's_ Rowe.

[2551] _'Sblood_] _Yfaith_ F₁ F₂. _Ifaith_ F₃. _I' faith_ F₄.

[2552] _i' faith_] om. Ff.

[2553] _an old fat_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest _a fat old_.

[2554] _trunk_] _hulk_ Collier MS.

[2555] _pudding_] Qq F₁. _puddings_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2556] _reverend_] Ff. _reverent_ Qq.

[2557] _Falstaff_] _that Falstaff_ Keightley conj.

[2558] _more_] _more's_ F₃ F₄.

[2559] _God_] Qq. _Heaven_ Ff.

[2560] _banish ... company,_] om. Pope.

[2561] [A knocking heard. Exeunt....] om. Qq Ff. A great knocking heard: Exeunt Hostess and Drawer; Bardolph follows. Capell, after _valiant Jack Falstaff_, line 455.

[2562] Re-enter....] Enter.... Qq Ff.

[2563] _sheriff_] _shriefe_ Q₅ Q₇ Q₈.

[2564] _the door_] _thee door_ F₂.

[2565] _ye_] Q₁. The rest _you_.

[2566] Re-enter....] Enter.... Qq Ff.

[2567] _Jesu_] om. Ff.

[2568] Prince.] Q₂ Q₃. Prin. Q₁. Poyn. Deryng MS. The rest give the speech to Falstaff.

[2569] _thou_] _if thou dost, thou_ Capell.

[2570] _mad_] F₃ F₄. The rest _made_.

[2571] _thou_] _thou art_ Q₈.

[2572] _up_] om. Rowe.

_good_] _a good_ Collier MS.

[2573] [Exeunt....] Malone. Exit. Ff. om. Qq. See note (XIV).]

Enter....] Qq Ff.

[2574] SCENE XII. Pope.

[2575] As verse first by Pope. As prose in Qq Ff.

[2576] _well_] _will_ Q₇.

_gracious_] om. Steevens conj.

[2577] _butter_] _butter, sir_ Capell.

[2578] _will_] om. Pope.

[2579] _three hundred_] Ff. 3000. Q₈. The rest 300.

[2580] _it be_] _it is_ Q₇ Q₈.]

[Exeunt....] Hammer. Exit. Qq Ff.

[2581] Peto.] Qq Ff. Poin. Steevens (Johnson conj.).

[2582] _fetches_] _fetches his_ F₃ F₄.

[2583] [He ... pockets....] QqFf (pocket Q₁ Q₂ Q₃).

[2584] _they be_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _be they_.

[2585] Peto.] Ff. om. Qq. Poins. Steevens (Johnson conj.).

[reads] Capell.

[2586] _Anchovies_] Capell. _Anchaves_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest _Anchoves_.

[2587] _ob._] _a halfpenny_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[2588] _march_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₈ F₃ F₄. _match_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₁ Q₇ F₂.

[2589] _Peto_] Qq Ff. _Poins_ Steevens (Johnson conj.).